Many people advise against it, but Microsoft is going to do it anyway: separate Office and Teams. It will then come with a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365, which no longer includes Teams. However, Microsoft does not do this out of its own will: the European Commission would oblige the company to do this.
In a statement to Reuters it says it has received feedback from the European Commission that multinationals should be given more flexibility when standardizing their sales.
Teams and Office apart
The EU will therefore be happy that there is more choice. Not just Europe, by the way: Slack, which also makes a kind of chat program that allows you to collaborate well, is said to have complained about Microsoft’s choice to offer Teams for free with Office 365 since 2017.
It is of course strange, because it is ‘free’, but Slack is right: you are less likely to choose Slack if you already have Teams in your Office package that everyone uses. With this, Microsoft attracts many people to its Teams, while those people might prefer to use Slack. That time will soon be over, because there will be a new Microsoft 365 and a new Office 365 where Teams will no longer be present.
